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Leader, Teacher, and Friend
Rod Erickson's accomplishments at Penn State span more than three decades and numerous roles from assistant professor to dean to vice president for research, to provost and president.
As Rodney A. Erickson prepares to embark upon his long-delayed retirement, one thing is crystal clear: by all accounts, he is leaving Penn State – and higher education in general – in a better state than he found it.
"Rod is somebody who has an extraordinary range of experience in higher education, and he has been one of the most influential people in the history of Penn State in the last 100 years in terms of what he has done to advance the institution," said Terry Hartle, senior vice president of the American Council on Education (ACE), the nation's most visible and influential higher education association representing more than 1,800 member institutions.
"Rod is somebody who has an extraordinary range of experience in higher education, and he has been one of the most influential people in the history of Penn State."—Terry Hartle, senior vice president of the American Council on Education (ACE)
Erickson's accomplishments at Penn State span more than three decades and numerous roles from assistant professor to dean to vice president for research, to provost and president. Although his accomplishments vary widely in scope and topic, they all come down to one basic goal: to continuously improve the University and its operations for the benefit of the students, faculty and staff.
As a faculty member in the late 1980s, Erickson made changes to the way the Department of Geography ran its internship program. "Some of the changes he implemented back then are things we still do today," said Brent Yarnal, professor of geography, chair of the Penn State Faculty Senate and a departmental colleague of Erickson's.
When Erickson became dean of Penn State's Graduate School in 1995, he worked to move all of the school's paper records into digital form.
"We had records going back to first degrees granted by the University, all this paper, and so we went through this massive scanning project to make all of this accessible and to preserve the materials," said Blannie Bowen, vice provost for Academic Affairs at Penn State. Bowen, who at that time worked for Erickson as associate dean of the Graduate School, said Erickson also streamlined a lot of the policies, procedures and protocols within the Graduate School, making them more effective.
"He did the same thing when he became provost. He tried to eliminate as many bureaucratic-type things as possible if they didn't add much to the effectiveness and efficiency of the University," Bowen said.
Erickson's collaborative style, and his staunch support of faculty, staff and students has been a hallmark of his leadership.
Erickson's more visible projects in that vein include the Academic Program and Administrative Services Review Core Council process, which he chaired as provost. Under Erickson's leadership, the Core Council process identified more than $25 million in savings achieved by energy savings initiatives, capping some subsidies, closure and streamlining of certain programs and departments, as well as advising expansion and creation of other programs and departments.
"That was very important to the University," said Yarnal. "We were in a budget crisis that was just putting things out of whack and we really needed to carefully evaluate all of our structures and systems here at the University. So he set up a great process and though not everybody's happy with what happened, everybody agrees that we needed to do it and that his leadership through that process was very important."
As president, Erickson charged the Budget Planning Task Force to build upon the work of the Core Council and identify collaborative and innovative opportunities. While the initial work of that task force has been completed, much still needs to be done.
"Over the course of his term as provost and then president, that 15-16 year period, the changes in our budget structure have been monumental. Rod Erickson has been the No. 1 person who has steered us through that and not only kept us afloat, but improved the stature of this University," Yarnal said.
Some of Erickson's other notable accomplishments include serving as co-chair on the Task Force on University Cost Savings; launching the eLion grade reporting system, enabling students to get their semester grades more quickly; a reorganization of the Office of Undergraduate Education to improve teaching and learning; a reorganization of the Center for Academic Computing, the first phase in the overall restructuring of what is now Information Technology Services; creation of the University's policy on academic integrity; chairing the University Strategic Planning Council in its development of Priorities for Excellence: The Penn State Strategic Plan 2009-10 through 2013-14; Creation of the Research Commercialization Office; and chairing the strategic planning group to launch the School of Information Sciences and Technology, now the College of IST.
"Rod as much as anyone gets credit for making Penn State a world-class institution," said Hartle. "When Rod got to Penn State in the mid-1970s it was essentially a pretty well known regional university. By the time he was asked to step in as president, Penn State had become a world-class research university known around the globe. As an individual who steadily moved up the academic ladder at Penn State into increasingly senior positions, Rod gets an enormous amount of credit for that transformation."
"His confidence in others is a motivating force—one that can't be understated. Rod's confidence in you often exceeded your own. He brought out the best in his colleagues, and they, in turn, challenged themselves to meet higher expectations."—Madlyn Hanes, vice president for Commonwealth Campuses
Erickson tends to deflect such praise, preferring to share credit for these and other accomplishments.
"That's far too much credit, far more than I deserve," Erickson said. "When a university gets to the stage of being ready for that takeoff into the top echelon, into really making that great academic leap forward, I think there's kind of an infectious atmosphere that begins to envelop an institution. We were able to hire some deans who in turn hired department heads over the last three decades that have really been transformative in terms of their academic units. And, of course, I had the strong support and encouragement of Graham Spanier and John Brighton, who shared our common goal of advancing the academic quality and reputation of the University."
Erickson continued, "Similarly, our chancellors at the campuses bring in top-notch division heads, with the mantra of 'Let's really push the envelope here and get things done.' In so many respects they are the ones who made that happen. Provosts and presidents can help set the tone, reinforce the vision and help get the resources that are necessary to do those sorts of things, but it's the faculty, staff and students that really make it happen."
Erickson's collaborative style, and his staunch support of faculty, staff and students has been a hallmark of his leadership.
Madlyn Hanes, vice president for Commonwealth Campuses, knows first-hand about Erickson's support, as he hired her into four different roles over the years. When she was an academic officer at the Delaware County campus (now Brandywine), Erickson named her the interim chief executive officer of Great Valley to help the campus transition from a graduate center to an academic graduate school. She then was named permanent CEO of Great Valley, and with that appointment became associate dean of the Graduate School. When Erickson became provost, he hired Hanes a third time, into the role of provost and dean at Penn State Harrisburg. He then recruited her for her current role.
"His confidence in others is a motivating force -- one that can't be understated. Rod's confidence in you often exceeded your own. He brought out the best in his colleagues, and they, in turn, challenged themselves to meet higher expectations. In my case, it was more than encouragement, although there was plenty of it; it was empowering. And I think that was the dynamic between us. It most certainly made me want to step up, do well and ask more of myself," she said.
"When you talk with Rod, he very rarely uses the pronoun I, except when he's taking responsibility for something," said Lou Anna K. Simon, president of Michigan State University. "He's very much a person who sees his role as helping faculty and students excel at a very high level and have bigger dreams than they imagined."
Susan Welch, dean of Penn State's College of the Liberal Arts, agrees. "Among the deans, he is viewed as extremely supportive of the academic enterprise. He takes great pride in the accomplishments of our faculty and staff, is extremely supportive, and he did all he could as provost to strengthen the academic standing and quality at Penn State."
"Rod's very much a person who sees his role as helping faculty and students excel at a very high level and have bigger dreams than they imagined."—Lou Anna K. Simon, president of Michigan State University
Damon Sims, vice president for Student Affairs, feels fortunate to have been able to work with Erickson. "As provost, Rod gave considerable time and attention to my concerns. We had regular one-on-one meetings, and he included me among the senior leaders invited to the Academic Leadership Council, which may have been the first time a chief Student Affairs officer at Penn State had been regularly included in those conversations. Rod clearly appreciated the importance of a seamless approach to the student experience at Penn State," he said. "More important still was Rod's genuine, deep concern for students. His sincere commitment to their success was evident from the very beginning of my Penn State experience."
National impact
Erickson has had an equally positive impact on higher education nationally, particularly through his work with the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), the academic arm of the Big Ten. Erickson served on the CIC executive committee from 2003 to 2011 and was its chair from 2007-11. During his tenure, he led the group in a number of initiatives.
"His sense that the CIC should be put on the national stage more prominently because of the role of these great universities was very important for changing the identity of the CIC and I think setting the stage for it to undertake new kinds of initiatives. It's always been very effective but he pushed it to a different level and I think that was very important," said Karen Hanson, provost at the University of Minnesota.
Barbara McFadden Allen, executive director of the CIC, also credits Erickson for the organization's growth in stature.
"I can say without a doubt that he transformed the CIC into the vibrant organization it is today. His support gave me confidence and energy to keep moving the organization ahead. That has translated into literally millions of dollars of value returned to CIC member universities through cost savings on contracts and services, and also through the creation of new efforts that would not be possible without collaboration," she said.
Erickson also spearheaded the development of a strategic plan for the organization.
"That really set us on a more deliberate path to collaboration across our member universities," McFadden Allen said. "These outstanding institutions can be fiercely competitive, and it is a delicate thing to get them all moving in the same direction, at the same time, to the same end. Rod was so helpful – utterly unflappable even when we were engaged in delicate or difficult negotiations."
"Whether it was course-sharing, online education, whatever the new thing that year was, we would all turn at some point in time and ask Rod, 'Well, what's Penn State thinking about this?'"—Sally Mason, president of the University of Iowa
Thomas Rosenbaum, provost of the University of Chicago, said another way Erickson worked to increase the national impact of the CIC was by "emphasizing the values and ethos of education tied to research – contributions we could make through the discoveries of our researchers and the training and placement of our students, and sharing the various talents of our universities in ways that could not be reproduced by any one university."
CIC colleagues pointed to Erickson as having been the driving force, or taking a lead role, in other major initiatives within the organization, including projects within the Center for Library Initiatives such as the Google Book Search project and reciprocal library borrowing; and numerous collaborative projects in areas related to technology, purchasing and licensing, leadership development, course sharing and global collaborations.
One common denominator in all of these projects was the leadership Erickson provided.
"Whether it was course-sharing, online education, whatever the new thing that year was, we would all turn at some point in time and ask Rod, 'Well, what's Penn State thinking about this? What are you guys doing in this arena? Rod always had something worthwhile that he could add to the conversation, no matter what subject it was. We worked on so many big things as Big Ten provosts, and it was often Rod that helped lead the discussion," said Sally Mason, president of the University of Iowa.
Erickson also played a key role in helping ACE address issues related to accreditation. Federal policymakers rely on accreditation to determine which institutions will be eligible for federal student aid. However, accreditation is done by the higher education community to itself, so some policymakers questioned whether it was as rigorous or reliable as it should be.
"Rod has been involved in accreditation for his entire professional career and he brought a great deal of wisdom to our discussions," Hartle said.
Hartle said Erickson's input in these initiatives is a strong contributing factor in their success. "I really do not know anyone in higher education circles who commands greater respect than Rod Erickson," he said. "His reputation is simply the gold standard. He is smart, he is thoughtful, he is hard-working and kind."
Erickson spent more than 12 years as provost at Penn State, which is longer than typical among his peers, many of whom were moving on to presidencies after three or four years as provost.
"There was some kind of internal clock that was suggesting that was the kind of expected career track, and various people were encouraging me, but I felt a very strong loyalty to Penn State, and to my colleagues here," Erickson said.
"If you think about the expression 'he's a rock,' it was coined for Rod Erickson. He is strong. He is stable. He doesn't get rattled when things get difficult. And he's thoughtful."—Eva Pell, recently retired undersecretary of science for the Smithsonian Institution
Erickson said he did look at a few other positions, especially in the earlier years. "I knew it would take something that was pretty fantastic to induce me to leave, and even as I was looking at a couple of other places, I was feeling very ambivalent about it. At some point I said to (his wife) Shari, 'If I'm that ambivalent about it I shouldn't really be considering things.'" Erickson said that realization kept him at Penn State. "Before I knew it I was one of the longest-serving provosts in the country, and really enjoying it."
Hartle said Erickson's commitment and dedication to Penn State are well known.
"Rod could have been president at a major research university if he had wanted to be. But Rod loves Penn State. He has enormous affection for the institution and he was fully expecting to conclude his career at Penn State as the provost. It was only because of the terrible events that transpired that he became president of the institution that he loves so much."
By all accounts, Erickson would have had a secure legacy as somebody who made enormous contributions to Penn State and to higher education in general.
"But his willingness to take on the presidency at a particularly difficult time, coupled with the gifts he brought to that – his personal integrity, his clear sense of mission, his firmness, and his soft-spokenness with a kind of iron in his spine, really I think is a contribution that always will be remembered," said Minnesota's Hanson. "He showed what was really important about what a fine institution Penn State is, and got the ship sailing in the right direction. It was an enormously difficult task, and I think everyone is just awed by how well he has done."
Sims, who was with Erickson the night he was named interim president, calls Erickson's contributions to Penn State incalculable. "I think he will most be remembered for his willingness to give himself voluntarily and fully to the interests of a great University when that University most needed him, and for reminding all of us that leadership in any university represents a public trust that must be treated with deep respect and managed with utter selflessness," he said.
Eva Pell, recently retired undersecretary of science for the Smithsonian Institution, worked with Erickson at Penn State starting in 1995, and succeeded him as vice president for research and dean of the Graduate School. Regarding his presidency, she said, "If you think about the expression 'he's a rock,' it was coined for Rod Erickson. He is strong. He is stable. He doesn't get rattled when things get difficult. And he's thoughtful. He's very analytical, while being a very kind and compassionate person, so the perfect person to take over this ship in uncharted waters and in rough seas."
Yarnal agrees. "I've heard it from everybody, 'Thank God that Rod was the one who took over after the scandal.'"
Erickson, who had begun to plan for his retirement in fall 2011, recalls his decision in early November 2011 to take on the presidency in the wake of the breaking scandal involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
"You can imagine at that time there were a lot of emotions swirling through my head," he said. "When I agreed to do it, I really had no idea that it would be two-and-a-half years. As events began to unfold, it became clear to me that it first of all would be very difficult for anybody from the outside to come in, not knowing anything about the University, and to deal with the issues facing us."
Erickson said another factor in his decision was that due to his administrative roles and particularly his role as provost, he had a greater breadth of knowledge of University operations than anyone else.
"There were areas that I didn't have a lot of experience in, but at least I knew the major drivers and our funding lines and our risks and the kinds of things we needed to do to stabilize, make sure that we were going forward," he said.
Erickson said it became apparent quickly that the University needed the stability of a sitting president, rather than an interim, but that the prospect of having a good pool of candidates at that point in time was not particularly high. After serving as interim for a little more than a week, his appointment as sitting president was ratified by the Board of Trustees.
"I thought, 'Well, this is not going to be a short-term kind of crisis. It's going to be much longer. We've got issues to deal with, we have to make sure things are stabilized before we go out to do a search. If I can have as many of those things completed successfully and behind us, whether it's the (fundraising) campaign or whether it's settling civil suits and things of that nature, the next president can come in without having to face a lot of those kinds of things and can look forward rather than looking back."
Mason sees brighter days ahead for Penn State.
"Penn State will get past this, and I hope Rod will be known as the person who helped them heal, got them through this really tough time – a time that the institution itself didn't deserve, but you know, none of us deserve some of the challenges that we're handed. It's unfortunate that it happened at Penn State, but I think it's fortunate that Penn State had Rod Erickson there, who was willing to step up because he had devoted so much of his life to the institution, and believes in it to this day, and understands that he will leave it a better place. I think that healing has begun at Penn State, and I think you can thank Rod Erickson for that."
As is typical, Erickson credits those around him for the University's ability to move forward.
"The level of resoluteness that Penn Staters have displayed is remarkable. When given this challenge of tremendous proportions they reached down, grabbed their boots, pulled them on and made sure that we continued to do outstanding work and continued to be one of the world's top universities. Penn State is a fantastic university, because of the people here – students, faculty, staff and alumni. I'm very bullish about the future of Penn State. We've been through a lot but there are wonderful, outstanding days ahead for our University," Erickson said.
Looking ahead
Once Erickson turns out the lights in the President's Office for the last time on May 11, he and his wife, Shari, plan to hit the road.
"We have a bucket list that's probably a lot longer than the number of years that we have on Earth. We have a lot of places that we'd like to go" both in the United States and abroad, he said.
Erickson's wife, Shari, sees the early days of retirement as a time of transition. "I think it's going to be a huge adjustment for Rod to go from working so many hours a week to really not having a pattern. We do have a little house in Florida that we'll spend some time at, but I really see in the early days to go traveling and to do different things to transition from working too much to not working at all. We want to go to Africa, China, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, and we loved Italy so I know we'll get back there," she said. They also plan a trip to Alaska, the only U.S. state Rod Erickson has not visited.
Erickson said he's looking forward to the flexibility of setting his own schedule. "One of the things about the presidency, any presidency, is that your professional life is really dictated — in many cases a year or more in advance. So having that flexibility to really be spontaneous, to say, 'hey, the weather looks great in the Midwest, let's get in the car, load up our fishing gear and drive out,' is something I'm looking forward to doing."


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As the title thread suggests there is no point spending £200 for something top of the range and having the card underpowered in a dual core machine until the end of the year to Feb when AMD Zen arrives. After a really good innings it's time for the old GPU to go (cheers Mantis!) as Win 10 just doesn't like anything other than 2D work, crashing to black and not giving you a desktop despite working for a few hours at a time.
So out of all the Radeon cards supported in Win10 which has the best price to performance for a dual core PC with 4 Gigs and DDR2? Not sure I could even find the 7700 or 8500 anymore so we're talking;
R7 200 and 300 series
R9 200 and 300 series
and whatever the Nvidia equivalents are but as an example the last sale price I saw in Maplin was 80 quid for an R7, and am assuming online would be cheaper. Sadly can't wait for the August bank hol when I know there would be another deal which is another reason for not caring about getting a performance card yet, by the time I actually build this Unicorn PC things will have moved on again.

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Grandpa Ted was into scrapbooking long before it became fashionable. You'd never have guessed it from looking at him, though. To all appearances, he was just a hard-working blue-collar guy, owner of a small printing business, and father of six. But Ted had a lifelong passion for family history and spent many years obsessively collecting family photos and assembling them into scrapbooks that he kept in the basement.
As a kid, I got to visit Grandma and Grandpa Sexton's house often, and always made a beeline for the corner of the basement that was Ted's unique collection of knick-knacks, books, novelty liquor bottles and old photos. I spent many hours poring over the old books and scrapbooks that jammed the shelves. I didn't know who most of the people in the scrapbook photos were—Grandpa just said that they were all uncles, aunts and cousins. But I was fascinated by the old photos from the 1930s and 1940s and the hours that I spent in Grandpa Ted's basement kindled my passion for family history.
Born in 1902, Ted was the second of twelve children. The family lived in Bemidji, Minnesota, where Ted's father worked as a foreman at a lumber mill. Ted's mother was the family's anchor, somehow raising a dozen kids and getting the family through the depression on the little income that they had.
Ted and his siblings were always close. Over the years, many of them moved down to the Twin Cities, but continued to spend time together and to see each other often. Ted was a key part of the family's social life, often traveling to visit siblings, uncles, aunts and cousins. He was a consummate storyteller as well, as were many of his brothers and sisters.
But Ted also had a passion for collecting family mementos—especially photographs. He hung onto every photo that anyone ever sent him and many of them ended up in his large scrapbooks in the basement.
I heard stories, years later, of some family members even getting a little angry with Ted when they'd discover some photo of theirs in one of his scrapbooks, which he had "borrowed" years ago. The joke was that if you ever let Ted get his hands on one of your photos, you'd likely never see it again.
Ted was also the publisher of a small newspaper and, later, the owner of a local printing company. It was no surprise then that his passion for collecting family photos led him to publish, in 1964, a bound book of family photos. Ted printed lots of copies and gave them to everyone in the family, so we all grew up with at least one copy of of this book of family photos at home.
The book—which we all referred to as the "green book" because of its green cover—contained about a hundred black and white photos. They were in no particular order, but each was neatly labeled, indicating the name of everyone in the photo. Like most of my cousins, I learned over the years to identify uncles, aunts and cousins by studying the green book and matching faces with names. By 1964, when the book was published, there were 62 direct descendants of Ted's parents, including 27 first cousins (my Dad's generation) and 23 2nd cousins.
By 1997, almost exactly 100 years after Ted's parents were married, the number of their direct descendants had grown to 109, including 70 2nd cousins (my generation). Ted had passed away in 1980, but his passion for family history was still alive, in all of the stories that the family continued to tell about "the Bemidji Twelve". (Four of the original twelve siblings were still alive in 1997).
It was also in 1997 that Ted's son Jerry, now owner of the original printing business, decided to publish an updated version of the 1964 "green book". The new book, entitled "The Minnesota Connection", was reminiscent of the original, with a green cover, similar size, and a couple hundred family photos. It ended up being over 300 pages long and included not only photos, but detailed family data, as well as lots of personal stories that people shared about relatives who had passed on.
The book was a massive undertaking. Uncle Jerry financed the project and recruited my cousin Dan, along with his wife, to edit the book and to generate most of the content. The most time-consuming task for them was in writing letters to ask people to share their photos, and in collecting, organizing and scanning all of the photos that they received.
Family members were extremely generous in the photos that they sent. Many people sent large manila envelopes, filled with photos spanning many years. So it was also a challenge to select the subset of photos to include in the book.
After many months of hard work by my cousin and his wife, The Minnesota Connection went to press. As his father Ted had done 30 years earlier, Uncle Jerry printed lots of copies and distributed them to the entire family. The new "green book" was beautiful, with a full color cover, professionally bound, and containing lots more photos and content than the 1964 version.
For me, the new book of family photos reignited a passion for family history that had been dormant since childhood. In the years following its publication, I got more and more excited about transferring the contents of the book to a permanent web site. I planned on starting with the photos from the green book and then letting people add photos of their own to the web site.
But I led a very busy life and it wasn't until early 2007 that I finally got around to calling my cousin Dan to find out if he had a digital copy of all of the photos that they had scanned back in 1997.
To my surprise, Dan said that he wasn't sure what happened to the digital copies, but he still had all of the original photos that went into the book. He'd always intended to return them, but had never gotten around to it.
I was excited at the prospect of being able to rescan these photos and then share them online with the rest of the family. I went to meet Dan at his business and he took me into a warehouse space at the back of his building, where he had several huge shelves filled with boxes and crates. Dan said that all of the photos were up on the top shelf.
The top of the shelving was 10-12 feet off of the ground, so Dan went to grab a ladder and then climbed up and started handing boxes down to me. At first, I figured that he wasn't exactly sure which box the photos were in. But suddenly it hit me—every box that he handed down was full of family photos!
I had been expecting just a few manila envelopes containing the photos that ended up in the green book. Instead, Dan had all of the photos that people sent him in 1997. This alone amounted to many hundreds of photos. But it didn't stop there. The boxes in Dan's back room were filled with Grandpa Ted's entire photo and scrapbook collection!
As I continued to open box after box to see what we had, I just got more and more excited. There were some truly wonderful treasures in Ted's collection. He had stacks and stacks of photos going back 60-70 years. And we also found several scrapbooks that I had never seen, full of even older photos of extended family members.
I had hit the family history jackpot—a huge collection of original photos, most of which no one had seen in years. I figured that there must have been something like several thousand photos in all.
It gradually dawned on me the project that lay ahead of me. This was no longer a matter of just scanning a couple hundred photos. Instead, I was looking at a major project that would take up the next few years. I was starting to become giddy with the idea of scanning, identifying, and cataloguing this huge collection.
I also realized what a huge responsibility this was, and what an honor. As it turned out, Dan trusted me enough with the photos to let me take the entire collection home. I promised him that I'd start scanning the photos right away and we could then come up with a plan for preserving the originals.
As I write this, it's been a year and a half since I brought Ted's collection home and started working through it. So far, I've scanned and identified close to 1,000 photos. I've published everything to our family site on ancestry.com and have been able to start sharing the photos with other family members.
Although I have a lot of work ahead of me, I'm committed to the mission of preserving for future generations this amazing collection of family photos and history. This is the kind of project that every family historian dreams of tackling. I'm also truly thankful to Grandpa Ted for his passion for collecting and preserving these photos. It's because of him that we now have access to such a wonderful collection of family memories.


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Students from the Department of Communication Arts & Sciences visit NESN studios. Students got a tour of the studio along with an in-depth Q&A session with internship and career advice. NESN CFO/COO Ray Guilbault, a Merrimack alumn, stopped by to talk to the students as well.


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THOMAS — It was an odd night at Snake River High School on Thursday evening as the highly anticipated match up between the Bear Lake Bears and the Snake River Panthers unfolded upon the hardwood.
After a late start, due to a freshman overtime tussle, the Bears raced out to a 10-2 lead and never looked back, stealing the road win over the Panthers with a 49-40 victory.
"First half we forced up some shots but Bear Lake did a good job of showing patience on their offensive end, making us work on defense and for us giving up three three's right off the bat made us play catch up from that point on," Snake River head coach Bob Coombs said. "This is fifth district basketball, which is very physical, and we got pushed and knocked around and right off the bat dug ourselves a hole."
The Panthers, who have blistered the nets all season long from the field, were uncharacteristically cold from the floor on Thursday, shooting just 1 of 11 from behind the arc and a paltry 5 of 13 from the charity stripe.
"You got to give Bear Lake credit on a lot of our shots they had a kid closing out with a hand right in our face," coach Coombs said. "We will shoot the ball a little better than we did tonight though because we have a good shooting team."
Bear lake eventually pushed their lead out to 16-points midway through the third quarter before Snake River awakened, somewhat, by pounding the ball inside in an attempt at the come from behind victory.
Candon Watt got active inside, posting his man down low, converting on several little turn around jumpers as the Panthers eventually cut the deficit too just 7-points with a little over a minute to play.
"We have to become more physical, mature a little bit and get the ball inside," coach Coombs said. "We had guys open inside and we actually made our little run by going inside. Bear Lake controlled the key and we didn't tonight though and in these big games the team that controls the key normally will get the win."
The comeback stalled however as Bear Lake made their free throws down the stretch, taking command of the fifth district race for the top seed.
"Bear Lake is a good ball team, we knew that they would be," coach Coombs said. "We're only half way through the season and now we know what we have to keep working on."
Snake River (9-2, 2-1) return to action Saturday evening when they host South Fremont at 7:30 P.M.
Bear Lake (49) - Porter Wallentine 12, Jordan Bills 5, Trent Michel 10, Clayton Harris 7, Derrick Gundersen 8, Brent Alleman 4, Brady Pitchford 2 rebounds (23) Wallentine 7 assists (9) Bills 4 FT - 5/7 3pt - 4/9 (Michel 2, Wallentine, Harris) fouls - 18 fouled out - none
Snake River (40) - Jacoby Johnson 11, Keegan Keller 2, Cole Rushton 2, Candon Watt 13, C.J. Toulouse 6, Derik Williams 2, Martin Hrabik 4 rebounds (24) Johnson 7 assists (5) Keller 2 FT - 5/13 3pt - 1/11 (Johnson) fouls - 12 fouled out - none


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Chet Faliszek, writer of many acclaimed Valve games, has quashed rumours that the company was in the midst of an acquisition by Korean game publishers Nexon and NCsoft
Why would they sell?Valve is making too much profit.
I wouldn't have even commented on this if I where a member of Valve, just another b.s. story on the internet.
The thought is laughable. NCSoft already crushed City of Heroes like it was nothing (subject for closure in November). Their business decisions are far too unusual for non-Asian developers.
If Valve Software sold, every single gamer out there would seriously HATE them... I would be leading the rage to their office with an AXE in hand wanting Gabe's head (LOL).
Gabe has done an amazing job with Valve. The company started out as a developer... they were doing just great with their library of games. But with the successful development and implementation of Steam, they are their own publisher. Valve Software is a success story that should be left alone to operate.


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'Les Miserables' Cast Applauds Ben Affleck at Post-SAGs Dinner
Les Miserables cast members Hugh Jackman, Amanda Seyfried, Anne Hathaway, and Eddie Redmayne make their way out of the Chateau Marmont after a post-SAG Awards dinner on Sunday (January 27) in Los Angeles.
The castmates were joined by their co-star Sacha Baron Cohen (with wife Isla Fisher) and Anne's hubby Adam Shulman. They all shared a couch area for snacks and cocktails and later moved to a long dining table for a sit-down meal.
"While they were eating dinner, Ben Affleck and his wife Jennifer Garner dropped by," a spywitness exclusively tells JustJared.com. "The entire cast erupted into applause for the SAG winner!"
Everyone also clapped when Anne, who picked up the Best Supporting Actress trophy, sat down at the table.
The Chateau Marmont was really the place to be that evening – Claire Danes and her publicist Jodi Gottlieb also stopped by to celebrate her win and some of the Glee cast, including Chord Overstreet and Harry Shum, Jr., were seen at another table.
Also pictured: Amanda walking her beloved dog Finn with some friends earlier in the day.
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I know I've said this before, but it's worth saying again. Hate, hate, hate. I would try and blame it on my parents somehow, in the way that I manage to blame everything else on them, but I think summer may be my problem.
Where did it all go wrong? We had pretty dreamy summers as children, I think. Big garden, swing, making mud pies, all that. It was in my teens that things took a turn for the bad.
I often thought that working might be a good idea before I learned that London in August is a cauldron of awfulness and every day that you are there you feel a bit self-conscious, like you really ought to be on holiday. I always felt that the city was looking at me in mild curiosity the way that people do when you go back to school after you've left sixth form. "What are you doing here? Why are you here?"
And nothing happens. It's so boooorring. Day after day of nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing. If I do anything for my child it will be to send it to get tennis lessons, so it will have something to do in the summer. I have already started trying to make friends at Kentish Town city farm, so Kitty's got somewhere to go when I boot her out of the front door on summer holiday mornings, light a fag and shout "Don't come back til it's dark."
The only solution is to go away for as long as financially feasible in August. If that means staying in the UK, so be it. We went to France last year and were eaten alive by mosquitoes the size of kittens and rained on for 1 week solidly. So this year we are going to Sussex to see if anything happens there.
Now, don't laugh at me about this tofu curry. I haven't turned into a hippy, I was just curious about tofu. I have never cooked with it before and thought I ought to rectify this because I always eat it in Chinese restaurants and think it is nice. So the other night I made a tofu curry and it was really fantastic and I was very pleased with it.
If you've never cooked with tofu, don't be scared. The secret is prepping it. So you get a block of it in a packet (I used some by Cauldron from ... all together now... WAITROSE!), take it out, drain it, wrap it in kitchen towel and then press it between two chopping boards weighed down with something heavy [insert joke about my fat ass here].
I did this for 10 minutes, but I think next time I will do it for 20. It makes the tofu tighter and more likely to take on colour and texture when you fry it off, which you do in a pan with some oil in. It takes a while to fry off - about 20 minutes to do a really good job.
As with all veggie curries, this requires a lot of ingredients, but it is worth it. And it'll give you something to do to pass the time until summer's over.
Esther's tofu curry
For the curry paste
2cm knob fresh ginger
1 chilli, seeds in or out, up to you
1 tsp tamarind paste (don't worry if you haven't got it)
2tsp soy sauce
1 tsp fish sauce
2 kaffir lime leaves (if you have)
2 cloves garlic
2 spring onions
1 heaped tsp tomato puree
1/2 tsp runny honey
1/2 bunch coriander (if you have)
1 block tofu
1 large can or two small of coconut milk
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bamboo shoots
baby sweetcorn
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1 Prepare the tofu as described and chop into chunks. Put all ingedients for the curry paste in whatever manner of whizzing machine you possess and whizz.
2 Fry off the curry paste for about 5 minutes over a medium flame. Fry off the tofu, add to the curry paste and stir. Add the coconut milk and stir further, being careful not to mash up the tofu blocks. Let this simmer for a few minutes.
2 Drop in your other veg and let the whole lot simmer for 5 minutes. If you're using pak choi, put a lid on your pan to help it all steam.


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Today i made Rajma and Paneer wrap for my lunch. Its a perfect lunchbox idea for the kids, loaded with protein, calcium and fibre. People who are always on the move and want to spend less time in eating, try this rajma and paneer wraps. You can substitute tofu instead of paneer. And this is going to participate in " JFI : Rajma " event hosted by Divya of Dilse.
- Rajma - 1/2 cup
- Paneer - 1/2 cup
- Chappathi ( Whole wheat Rotis ) - 3
- Onion - 1Ginger Garlic paste - 1 tsp
- Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
- Asafoetida - a pinch
- Tomato Puree - 3 tbsp
- Chilly powder - 1 tsp
- Coriander powder - 1 tsp
- Mint Chutney - 1/4 cup
- Mayonnaise - 2 tbsp (Optional)
- Coriander leaves, chopped - 3 tbsp
- Salt to taste
- Oil - 2 tbsp
For the Rajma and Paneer Stuffing
- Heat oil in a non stick pan and add the paneer cubes to it and fry them till they turn slightly brownish and take them out and keep aside.
- In the remaining oil add cumin seeds, when the seeds crackle add asafoetida.
- Next add onions to it and fry till they turn golden brown in color.
- Add ginger garlic paste, tomato puree, chilly powder, coriander powder and little water and mix well, simmer and cook till the raw smell goes off.
- Add the rajma and salt, mix well and cook on a low flame for 2 to 3 Min's.
- Finally add coriander leaves and paneer cubes to it and mix well.
- Divide the stuffing into three equal portions and keep aside.
- Place a roti on the dry surface and evenly apply the mayonnaise and mint chutney on it.
- Place a portion of the stuffing at the edge of the roti and roll it up tightly.
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Retired prof to sign copies of new book
Mississippi State University's African-American Studies program and Barnes and Noble Bookstore will host a talk and book signing by Dr. Stanly Godbold, a retired professor of history at MSU, on Tuesday.
Godbold's new book, "Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter: The Georgia Years, 1924-1974," is published by Oxford University Press.
The program will begin at 3 p.m. in Barnes and Noble on Tuesday.
Godbold earned a doctor of philosophy degree in history from Duke University and a master of divinity degree in theology from Southern Methodist University.
He is an expert in Southern history and American religion. Godbold retired in 2003 after a 26-year career at MSU.
Stephen Middleton, professor of history and director of African-American Studies at MSU said this book is unique in presidential biographies because it highlights the contributions of the first lady as well as the president.
"This brilliantly researched and elegantly written work is the first of a two-volume series on the Carters," Middleton said.
Goldbold said the influence of Carter's ancestry, family, military career, business experience, and marriage to Rosalynn on his development and political thought is the primary focus for this book, that ends with his governorship for the state of Georgia.
The second volume will cover the presidency and Carters after the White House.
"I will tell you now, however, that there is only one Jimmy Carter, and the work he does after the White House is exactly the same as he did before and during his presidency, but just a different venue and methods," Goldbold said.
The second volume is tentatively scheduled for 2014.


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Senate panel OKs renewal of timber county funding
By JEFF BARNARD
Of the Associated Press
GRANTS PASS — A U. S. Senate committee on Tuesday endorsed legislation to extend federal subsidies for timber counties one more year, and to protect more wilderness and wild rivers in Oregon.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said the two bills are part of his effort to solve the funding crisis for Oregon timber counties, which are struggling to finance law enforcement, and other services, in the wake of expired subsidies and voter reluctance to increase taxes. Still to come is some way to increase timber harvests on what are known as the O&C lands in Western Oregon as a permanent funding solution for the counties.
"As we go forward on the O&C legislation, the lands in western Oregon that were protected in the Oregon Treasures bill are going to be part of the balance that is going to be struck in the division of lands between conservation and harvest lands," Wyden said in a statement.
One bill would extend federal subsidies to timber counties nationwide, known as the Secure Rural Schools Act, though at a 5 percent lower rate than before. Oregon's share would be about $100 million.
Secure Rural Schools was first enacted in 2000, and has now expired, with final payments going out early this year. The idea was to make up for the timber revenues that counties lost when national forests cut back logging by 90 percent to protect fish, wildlife and clean water.
The other would create two new wilderness areas in central and southwestern Oregon, and extend wild river protection to parts of the Rogue, Chetco and Molalla rivers. One wilderness area would be in the central Oregon area known as Cathedral Rock. The other would be along the lower Rogue River in southwestern Oregon.
The bills were voted out of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee chaired by Wyden on a voice vote with no opposition.
If the bills pass the full Senate, their fate is still uncertain in the House, where members of the Oregon delegation have been working on a legislative proposal to split the O&C lands in two, with one managed for conservation, and the other for timber that would provide revenues for timber counties.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, which oversees the O&C lands, is working on a new management plan for the area, which would be ready in 2015.
Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., called the Senate committee action a positive step, adding that some kind of extension of the timber subsidies has always been envisioned as part of the solution for the counties. It would be a couple years before any legislation that increases timber harvest would produce logs.
Wyden is still working on expansion of federal subsidies beyond timber counties to all resource-dependent counties with federal lands.


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Councilman Eric Garcetti, who jammed with pop star Moby and fashioned himself as a voice for a new generation of city leaders, has opened a growing lead in the race for Los Angeles mayor with the pool of uncounted ballots steadily shrinking.
Garcetti, 42, who made a mark helping resuscitate neighborhoods from the gritty edge of downtown to Hollywood, held a 53 percent to 46 percent margin over city Controller Wendy Greuel, with about 60 percent of the precincts reporting and tens of thousands of mail-in ballots tallied. Both are Democrats.
Garcetti was upbeat in a speech to cheering supporters in Hollywood.
"We have sent a message tonight, and that message is that Los Angeles is ready to put the recession in the rear view mirror and become the city of opportunity that I grew up in once again," he said.
Greuel sounded guarded as votes were being counted, telling supporters that "no one said it was going to be easy or quick.
"When you're playing in the championship of LA politics, sometimes the game goes into overtime," she said.
The winner will replace two-term Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who exits July 1.
Garcetti shares a Latino heritage with the outgoing mayor -- he has Italian and Mexican roots from his father -- but he has a far different resume than Villaraigosa, the product of a broken home from the tough streets east of downtown.
Garcetti is the son of a former district attorney who grew up in the San Fernando Valley's tony Encino enclave, attended Columbia University and enjoys playing jazz piano.
Despite record spending, turnout at polls appeared sluggish after a campaign that centered on the city's ailing economy and the influence of municipal unions. Only one of four voters in the nation's second-most populous city were projected to cast a ballot, possibly a historic low in a city known to shrug at local politics.
Garcetti, who could become the city's first elected Jewish mayor, and Greuel, 51, who could become the first woman to hold the job, occupy so much of the same policy turf they've been dubbed "Greucetti."
A steady stream of negative advertising from the campaigns and outside groups has helped obscure the candidates' promises about free-flowing traffic, new jobs and better schools in coming years.
Voters also were judging three competing ballot proposals to manage the city's proliferation of pot shops, forcing residents to weigh the needs of the sick against complaints about crime around the dispensaries.
While some cities successfully managed pot collectives, Los Angeles fumbled and dispensaries sprouted across the city. Proposition D would cap the number at 135 -- the total that opened prior to 2007 -- and raise taxes slightly; Proposition E would cap the number at the same level but raise no new taxes; Proposition F wouldn't limit the number of pot shops but would put stringent controls such as audits and background checks on employees while also raising taxes.
The proposition with the most votes wins -- if it collects a majority. If none of the measures receives more than 50 percent of the vote, the issue could bounce back to the City Council.
Greuel and Garcetti emerged from a March primary in which no candidate secured the majority needed to win outright, leading to Tuesday's runoff. Only about two in 10 voters went to the polls in that race.
The mayoral contest has seen record spending -- over $30 million overall -- and the outcome was expected to swing on appeal with key voting groups, including blacks and Latinos and turnout in the Valley, South Los Angeles and other battleground neighborhoods.
On Monday, Greuel sent off a final round of recorded endorsements from former President Bill Clinton, in whose administration she once worked, while Garcetti was on campaign stops arguing a simple point to mostly indifferent residents: The election matters.
While Garcetti could become the first Jewish man elected mayor, he would not be the first Jew to hold the job. Bernard Cohn was mayor briefly in 1878, after being appointed to fill a vacancy.
Voter Angela Beltran, a nonprofit research analyst, said her choice was not a gender issue.
"It was more a matter of who has done a lot of the work in the community and in the city," she said. "I've just seen Eric Garcetti really flourish and grow here in Los Angeles."
The lack of public interest ran counter to what's at stake. A key issue has been the city's shaky $7.7 billion budget and the prospect of living with less. Spending is projected to outpace revenue for years, and rising pension and retiree health care bills threaten money that could otherwise go to libraries, tree-trimming and street repairs. Villaraigosa urged his successor to try to block a 5.5 percent pay increase for civilian employees.
With so much common ground on policy, the race became a duel over character issues as well as a referendum on who was closer to politically powerful municipal unions often criticized for landing generous raises and benefits.
Garcetti's commercials labeled Greuel "DWP's mayor," a reference to the Department of Water and Power, whose workers financed ads to help install her at City Hall.
Greuel's attack ads hit Garcetti for a fundraiser organized by a developer who she says once served prison time for fraud.


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November 19. 2013 1:36PM
Mazzaglia faces more charges in UNH student's murder
By GRETYL MACALASTER
Union Leader Correspondent
AG seeks to unseal evidence in Lizzie Marriott murder case
— Seth Mazzaglia, 31, who is charged in the murder of UNH sophomore Elizabeth "Lizzi" Marriott, is facing another round of charges.
Three new indictments were handed up this week against Mazzaglia by a grand jury on Nov. 14 in connection with the murder of Marriott, 19, last October. Mazzaglia is already facing first- and second-degree murder charges alleging different theories of the crime. He is accused of strangling and/or suffocating Marriot on Oct. 9, 2012, before, during and after committing aggravated felonious sexual assault.
A new indictment for conspiracy to commit tampering with witnesses or informants alleges that through letters, Mazzaglia suggested girlfriend and accomplice Kathryn "Kat" McDonough should commit suicide, and he laid out how she should go about it.
In these letters, which McDonough allegedly destroyed, he also laid out a detailed alibi she was to commit to memory and suggested they get married, believing McDonough would then not have to testify against Mazzaglia. He also suggested framing two friends who were allegedly in Mazzaglia's Mill Street apartment after Marriott's murder.
A second indictment alleges Mazzaglia solicited the help of someone outside the jail to help him break out in an "armed and violent" escape after his arrest for Marriott's murder, and that he gave the friend access to his bank accounts in order to finance a means by which to plan the escape, and provided the friend detailed plans and directives about his planned escape.
The last new indictment for falsifying physical evidence repeats many known details about Mazzaglia and McDonough's actions after Marriott's murder, while adding that police believe they put Marriott in a suitcase wrapped in a tarp to remove her from the apartment. Police believe the couple then loaded the suitcase into Marriott's vehicle and drove it to Peirce Island in Portsmouth where they allegedly dumped her body into the Piscataqua River estuary. They later abandoned Marriott's car in a UNH parking lot, according to court documents.
Marriott's body has never been recovered despite many weeks of searching after her disappearance.
McDonough is serving a 1 ½- to 3-year sentence on charges of hindering prosecution as part of a negotiated plea deal she reached with the state in July. McDonough is also expected to testify against Mazzaglia as part of the deal.
Jury selection in the trial against Mazzaglia is tentatively scheduled to begin in May 2014.


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ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Dr. Charles Walker will get to do something Monday most people will never have the opportunity to do — present at the United Nations in New York City.
Walker, a professor of psychology at St. Bonaventure University, was chosen to take part in the U.N.'s discussion titled "Happiness & Well-being: Defining a New Economic Paradigm."
Well known for his research in measuring happiness in students and teaching happiness literacy, Walker said he received the opportunity via email. At first, the email, coming from the prime minister of Bhutan, didn't seem legitimate to Walker. He thought it might be a friend pranking him or, more menacingly, a computer virus.
But when he opened it, he knew at once he wasn't being fooled.
"(There was) a very serious letter that addressed me personally," Walker said. "I had to begin to take it seriously."
From then on, Walker began exchanging emails with Bhutan's embassy in New York City. Walker believes he was called to do the presentation because of his website, www.wellbeingincollege.org.
"I think they found me because of the website," Walker said. "It's a website on psychological being and well-being. It's being used by people all over the world."
Walker said he tracks his website's progress using Google analytics to see what pages are being frequented and by what areas of the world.
"I noticed a while ago there were people from Bhutan using my website regularly," Walker said. "They probably liked what they saw and it helped out with what they were doing."
And what they are doing in Bhutan, according to Walker, is generating a focus on balance, revolution and "radical socialism."
"What they are importing to the world now is nothing short of cultural revolution," Walker said. "And that's going to be their export to the world."
Walker said that any big decisions Bhutan has to make, they will be in reference to the nation's happiness — how it will affect them positively and negatively. They hope the rest of the world will catch on with their revolution.
"They're hoping they're going to plant the seeds of change," Walker said.
"Scholars, economists, heads of state will meet on April 2 … translate it into an idea, to a policy, and to propose variations of it so a year from now, countries can take parts of it (to use)."
Walker believes that his role in this discussion will be to share his research and tools he has utilized to measure others' happiness.
"(I'm) trying to create a higher level of literacy … about what happiness is and how they can assess it and know whether or not they're achieving it," Walker said. "My focus is mostly going to be on educational environments."
Walker summed up his emotion about the chance to speak at the U.N. with a simple question: "Can there be anything better than feeling like you contributed to improving the world?"
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October 18, 2012
Congratulations to the Puerto Rico Society of CPAs (Colegio de CPAs de Puerto Rico) from the American Institute of CPAs on its recent substantial equivalency victory.
On Sept. 14, 2012, Puerto Rico's Governor, Luis Fortuño, signed a bill that makes Puerto Rico's CPA licensure requirements substantially equivalent to those of the Uniform Accountancy Act by establishing a one year experience requirement for new CPAs.
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The connection type is PPPoE with the login details configured into the modem.
The IP set in the modem is Dymamic and so is in the Phone adapter.
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Entrepreneurial trailblazers like alumnus Matt Brezina unite at the College of Information Sciences and Technology Start-up Week to encourage students to turn ideas into action.
After graduating from Penn State and relocating to the University of Maryland to work on his Ph.D, Matt Brezina was in the market for a new roommate. His pleading Craigslist ad was answered promptly by MIT graduate Adam Smith, and the two clicked immediately. Through a quick discovery of common entrepreneurial interests, they developed their first software startup company, Xobni, in March 2006. The name―"inbox" spelled backwards and pronounced zob-nee―and concept were created to meet the ever-growing demands of email use.
In just a few short years, the two were hailed by INC magazine as up-and-coming entrepreneurs―and their recognition was well-deserved. Fresh out of college, the dynamic duo created user-friendly software, raised an impressive $14 million to promote and sell their product, and even grabbed the attention of Bill Gates, who demonstrated their product at a Microsoft developers' conference.
But this was just the beginning. Matt then went on to develop a mobile photo-sharing application company, Sincerely. With the help of one of his Xobni teammates, Sincerely launched in the spring of 2011 with its first product, Postagram, debuting to the public shortly thereafter. There is no doubt that he's trailblazing an inspiring path for others to follow.
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Visionary entrepreneurs from around the country, including alumni like Matt Brezina, will be visiting Penn State to share their strategies for success during the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) Start-up Week. This year's event will feature more than 25 speakers and visitors from trailblazing companies such as Weebly, Reddit, Sincerely, Dropbox, Scribd, Social Cam, and SongSplits. The owners and founders of these companies are literally changing the way we work, collaborate, share data and information, and interact socially.
Entrepreneurship isn't just about making money. It's about using innovation to solve some of the world's biggest problems. Penn State believes every student has a contribution to make.
These talented innovators will showcase the possibilities that exist for enterprising students to pursue their business ideas by providing lectures, conducting workshops and "Hacking" sessions, and holding town hall meetings. All presentations and discussions will be video-streamed live and recorded for access to anyone throughout the Pennsylvania. The IST event will involve collaboration with other colleges at Penn State, including the College of Engineering and the Smeal College of Business.
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Entrepreneurship isn't just about making money. It's about using innovation to solve some of the world's biggest problems. It's about improving human welfare. At Penn State, we believe every student has a contribution to make. The trick is unlocking the talent, and one of the best ways to do that is through collaboration. Two dynamic resources for enterprising students are the Innoblue and the Lion Launch Pad. Innoblue, a community of students, advisers and corporate partners, strives to lead and encourage inventive projects that will positively impact Penn State. Student Kathleen Warner will be the Innoblue speaker at IST Start-up Week on Monday, March 18. The Lion Launch Pad provides funding, facilities, and mentoring for entrepreneurial student teams. The College of Engineering Learning Factory provides students with practical applied experience through industry-sponsored and client-based design projects, and the Smeal Penn State Entrepreneurship Network offers business students opportunities like a guest lecture series, networking events, and community partnerships.
Other resources are designed to help students and educators. Two such centers explore best practices and how to execute them. At Smeal, the mission of the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship (FCFE) is to take the best academic research in innovation and entrepreneurship and translate it into action. And, the Center for Entrepreneurship Learning, a partnership of Smeal, and the College of Education, provides educators both at the collegiate and K–12 level with resources for educating students about entrepreneurship.
IST's Start-up Week is just one of the many events and competitions that brings the real world of innovation to students. Along with College of IST activities, some of these include the interdisciplinary design summit organized by the College of Engineering, Idea Pitch conducted by the Smeal College of Business, Global Entrepreneurship Week held each fall, and multiple Hackathons.


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I keep watching the fares but they're not coming down.
Are the airlines just trying to make a killing?
I've heard that Alaskan was discontinuing some flights to LaPaz. If this is true, than that may have something to do with it..?


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I am simply amazed at your skill in this game. Not only are you capable of solving the 4x7 games in the blink of an eye, but you clearly have an incredible amount of stamina as well: according to the statistics you have been playing just over 4.5 hours per day every day this month.
My question is how do you do it? Are you capable of memorizing the clues after a first read so that you don't need to waste time reading them again? Also, how do you avoid eye strain and mental fatigue from playing that much as it appears that you've not had a single misstep based on your times? I must admit that after two hours of playing I have to get up and move around as my brain and eyes simply hit a brick wall.
If you could give me some pointers that would be great. Thus far I've not been stumped by any of the challenging 4x7 puzzles (two of them got away from me when I became really busy at work and had to take a hiatus), but the best time that I've been able to muster is 307 seconds. Even then I felt like I was clicking a square at every moment.
Aha, and now we have discovered the meta logic puzzle of this site. How do they do it?
Solutions to this meta puzzle have been offered many times in this forum, and the only thing I can add is to point out a few things that don't work.
Reading the clues backwards real fast does NOT help you resolve the single or double XOR positive relationships.
Filling in the grid with random entries, then printing out a screen shot quickly, and examining the result under a UV black light does NOT reveal a secret watermark indicating the incorrect entries.
In a 4x7 puzzle, finding the clue number of the "Big Negative" clue (the one that lists 7 things that are all different), and holding down the ALT key and tapping the F4 key lightly the same number of times as the clue number does NOT reveal any part of the solution.
The following things help a lot.
A good memory for backstory attributes, clue structure, and labels.
Having a sixth and seventh sense about clue processing order
Time (lots of it)
Doing lots of puzzles in the same category within a short time frame.
Getting great pleasure from solving familiar puzzles over and over again
As for stamina, caffeine helps, but check the table again for players who are really dedicated. Four hours a day might be a lot for some, but it pales in comparison to players with the best stamina.
Hey, I hope you don't mind if I ask a question or two.
Do you ever use the "Clear Errors" button?
If the "Clear Errors" button shows a lot of mistakes, do you ever just quit the puzzle and get another?
I used the Clear Errors button a lot in the past along with the Save button. I don't recall using the Clear Errors button recently.
I don't really abandon puzzles.
If a puzzle stumps me or confuses me, I take screen shots etc. so I can really spend some quality time with the puzzle to understand where and why I missed something.
So... if you submit a puzzle, and it says that you have the answer wrong, what do you do?
Do you restart it, or just hit the back button 10-20 times?
I'm guessing that you don't save puzzles for later very often. Just doing this once or twice would make the average time you spent on puzzles much higher.
If Clear Errors and Save have been used, more than half the puzzle will be solved, and it won't take long to finish it.
Thanks Zenobia! Yeah, I looked at Izzysam's record and couldn't believe it: well over 10 hours per day. I can't devote that kind of time to logic puzzles, nor would I if retired. That is, of course, assuming that I could physically do it. Simply amazing!
You really have no idea how much time other users spend per puzzle.
If I hit "Remove Errors", and it removes 20 errors, that costs 2400 seconds. The person may have spent less than 2 minutes on the puzzle, but it goes down as 2400+ seconds, throwing off their average!
Also, if you start a post, and don't finish it, then you can always come back to it, as long as you do it within 24 hours. You can do that with the "Recent Games" button. If I started 10 games 20 hours ago, and then finish them all right now, then they'll all be 72000 seconds, and that will greatly throw off my average.
I'm tempted to do this on purpose next month, so that it looks like I spend 30+ hours a day solving puzzles.
Personally, I'd prefer to see an average in the hall of fame that doesn't reflect penalties from removed errors and incorrect submissions. Admin, is this possible?
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Litchfield town deliberative session set for SaturdayBy KIMBERLY HOUGHTON
Union Leader Correspondent
January 31. 2013 10:29PM
LITCHFIELD - Local residents will have an opportunity to amend more than 15 warrant articles and a proposed budget during Saturday's town deliberative session.
According to Town Administrator Jason Hoch, the recommended operating budget of $5,045,145 is about $80,000 more than the current budget.
"About $35,000 of that increase is the added cost from the New Hampshire Retirement System," said Hoch. "That is what everyone is dealing with right now."
Other adjustments to the budget include third-year wage increases from a police union contract and the anticipated hiring of four to six on-call firefighters, according to Hoch.
Voters will review 18 warrant articles, although some of them are typical housekeeping items. There is a request for $12,500 to be used for preliminary engineering costs to design a sidewalk on Pinecrest Road that would connect the bike path on Albuquerque Avenue with Litchfield Middle School. The fee, Hoch said, is just for the design plans; the actual construction costs will likely be presented to voters at the 2014 annual meeting. "We know how popular the Albuquerque Bike Path has become, so we want to get the ball rolling to eventually connect the path to all of the schools," he said. "This is step one towards doing that."
There is a separate request to allocate $10,000 to repair the entrance to the town hall and police station. The requested funds, according to Hoch, are leftover from the town hall roof replacement last year.
"There is severely deteriorated concrete at the front entrance," he said, adding the existing columns at the entryway also need to be repaired.
Residents also will be asked to appropriate $20,000 to repaint the old town hall, $10,000 for an engineering study to determine possible designs for a wastewater sewer system and nearly $19,000 for a 2 percent cost of living adjustment for nonunion town and library employees.
Another warrant article, which is advisory only, seeks to gain public comment about the current official ballot voting, or SB2 form currently used by the town. The article asks for insight into whether town residents would like to revert to the traditional town meeting for conducting its annual meeting.
"If there is interest to go back to the traditional town meeting style, then it will be placed on the warrant next year to discuss the merits of each type of government," said Hoch.
Saturday's deliberative session begins at 10 a.m. at Campbell High School, 1 Highlander Court.
The school district's deliberative session will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the high school.
Election Day is March 12.


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Virtual reality in the treatment of fibromyalgia: a pilot study.
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The aim of this article is to present preliminary data on the effectiveness of virtual reality (VR) as an adjunct to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in the treatment of fibromyalgia (FM).
The sample comprised six women diagnosed with FM according to the American College of Rheumatology guidelines (1990). The treatment program consisted of 10 sessions of group CBT with the support of an adaptive virtual environment containing a specific content for developing relaxation and mindfulness skills.
Patients were assessed at pretreatment, post-treatment, and at a 6-month follow-up for the following outcome variables: functional status related to pain, depression, a negative and positive affect, and coping skills.
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